MFM Daily Devotional 23 June 2025 (Monday), Mountain Top Life Devotional By Dr. D.K Olukoya
Read MFM Daily Devotional 23 June 2025 (Monday) Message
TOPIC: Good Follower, Great Leader.
MEMORY VERSE: “Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account.” – Hebrews 13:17
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
“Leadership is an opportunity to serve, it is not a trumpet call to self-importance.”
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY:
“The Lord shall make you head and not the tail; you shall be above always and never be beneath, in the name of Jesus.”
FIRE SCRIPTURE: 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21
15 The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. 16 Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.
The Call of Elisha
19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. 20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.”
“Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?”
21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.
MFM Daily Devotional 23 June 2025: MESSAGE
Show me a faithful, loyal, and committed follower, and I will show you a great leader! Followership is not just an act but a process that you must put your totality into if you must become a great leader in due course. It is an apprenticeship, a training through which the individual is adequately mentored to the extent that he becomes a replica of the leader. No wonder the apostles were seen to be Christlike at Antioch, hence they were called “Christians” for the first time.
Jesus said whoever desires to be great must first be a servant (Mark 10:43-44). He was himself a leader with a servant’s heart. He wants us to emulate the same. Unfortunately, many Christians are in a hurry today to get to the position of leadership.
Beloved, you must have a good report of followership to become a great leader. Leadership does not just happen; it must be virtuously developed. God instructed Elijah to appoint Elisha as the next prophet in his stead, but Elisha was not in a hurry to take the master’s position. He surrendered himself to be led and followed the footsteps of his master. He did not miss the mantle of power when Elijah was briskly taken to heaven (2 Kings 2:1-5). He refused to be distracted even by the sons of prophets. He followed his master till he received the double portion anointing!
God still looks out for such steadfastness and faithfulness in followers who desire to be great leaders. But we should not be like Gehazi, who had the opportunity to become the next great prophet of God (with double the portion of Elisha’s anointing) but lost his eternal prospects as a result of covetousness (2 Kings 5:20-27).
Do you desire a stand in leadership for the kingdom? Then decide to be that sincere, loyal, and committed follower that Jesus is looking for.
MFM DEVOTIONAL PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
1. O God, make me a faithful and loyal follower, in the name of Jesus.
2. O God, anoint me with the oil of an exceptional leader, in the name of Jesus.
3. I reject and cast out the spirit of Gehazi, in the name of Jesus.
EVENING
4. Help me, Lord Jesus, to reproduce able leaders as You did, in the name of Jesus.
5. O God, make me a good servant and follower like Elisha, in the name of Jesus.
6. My Father, let me receive the reward of divine promotion to leadership after the order of Joshua and Elisha, in the name of Jesus.
7. O God, give me the grace to be Christlike, in the name of Jesus.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 4:18-5:27; Acts 15:1-35; Psalm 141:1-10; Proverbs 17:23
MFM Daily Devotional 23 June 2025, Mountain Top Life 2025. 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle